Interesting picture

**MizzouScotsman** · 12th November 12, 01:28 AM

Ok, I found a picture that is as interesting as it is weird. It is an "old" looking picture and it has some writing on it mentioning dancers. I am looking to find out if anyone has any information on it. I am researching to find out as much as I can as the picture is, as I said, interesting. Here is the picture....

**figheadair** · 12th November 12, 04:43 AM

I'd guess c1900 +/- 10 years. Looks military judging by the sporrans: London, Liverpool, Tyneside or Toronto Scottish perhaps.

**McClef** · 12th November 12, 04:50 AM

It can only have been done as a joke, no way would they actually have been allowed to dance like that and it could have potentially been painful!

**Spartan Tartan** · 12th November 12, 06:21 AM

This is what happens when military guys get bored...they find ways to amuse themselves.

**sydnie7** · 12th November 12, 08:28 AM

"Salome" dancers plus their friends in the background holding up a blanket (to keep the higher-ups from seeing what's going on?). We've seen pix of one or two of these at a time, maybe this was a Guinness World Record attempt LOL

**plaid preacher** · 12th November 12, 08:34 AM

No I have seen another picture like this, it was one of the Canadian regiments. I think as memory serves, at the beginning of the Second World War they were unable to get the material for kilts and therefore were forced to wear regulation military fatigues. I believe it was a protest by these proud highlanders to the lack of proper scale of issue. They had sporrans, but no kilts - just as the photo indicates.

If I have a few moments I will try to track down the photo I saw.

**xdepuydt** · 12th November 12, 10:38 AM

I picture Adam in a Scottish garden of Eden

**plaid preacher** · 12th November 12, 11:12 AM

Aha!! I found it! http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/tr.../fulldress.htm

About half way down the page to will find a similarly attired soldier and the story of how the kilt had been banned for combat dress.

**MizzouScotsman** · 12th November 12, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by plaid preacher

Aha!! I found it! http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/tr.../fulldress.htm

About half way down the page to will find a similarly attired soldier and the story of how the kilt had been banned for combat dress.

Thanks!! The picture makes sense now. These men were protesting something they saw as unjust and against what they believed. I'm not sure I could protest in such a manner as these brave souls.

Thanks Plaid.